Usually means: Inconsistently present or developed areas.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. patchily: Merriam-Webster
  2. patchily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. patchily: Collins English Dictionary
  4. patchily: Vocabulary.com
  5. patchily: Wordnik
  6. patchily: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. patchily: Wiktionary
  8. patchily: Dictionary.com
  9. patchily: Rhymezone
  10. patchily: FreeDictionary.org
  11. patchily: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. patchily: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. patchily: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. patchily: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (patchily)

▸ adverb:  In a patchy manner.

Similar:
splotchily, fragmentedly, fragmentarily, spottily, blotchily, fragmentally, scatteredly, scratchily, tenuously, sketchily, more...

Opposite:
uniformly, consistently, evenly

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Similar:
splotchily, fragmentedly, fragmentarily, spottily, blotchily, fragmentally, scatteredly, scratchily, tenuously, sketchily, more...

Opposite:
uniformly, consistently, evenly



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